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Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 301, 18 July 1868, Page 2

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OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ. , LATES TELEGRAMS TO JUNES. * PROPOSED ABDICATION OP QUEEN VICTORIA. THE ALGERIAN FAMINE. PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S TRIAL. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. THE DERBY. [By Et.ectbio Telfgrapu.] The following is from the Grey River Argun extra of Wednesday. We extract also the telegram received by the Nelson papers, which is however, ridiculously deficient in details, and is subjoined. Bluff, Tuesday. The English Mail has not arrived. The following telegrams arc from the Argus : The A. S. N. Company's steamship Rangatira arrived at Glenelg at 5 p. in. from King George's, with Australian mails. The upward passage occupied 150 hours, the down passage 93 hours. A hurricane, of three days' duration, was experienced on the up-passage. The Northumberland, 1200 tons, coal laden, foundered on the 20ult. off Bald Head, King George's Sound; all the crew saved. The Bombay, Captain Hector, R.N. R., arrived at the Sound at 3p.m. on the Ist July. Captain Burne, of the Bombay, lias gone home on leave of absence. The Bombay left Galle at 1 p. m. on the 17th June, and experienced light south-west winds and variable weather and calms with moderate south-east trades. The steamer Surat met with an accident on her voyage to the Red Sea , she broke the blade of he screw, which was driven through -the stern; the saloon was in consequence filled with water. The accident occurred 400 miles from Galle ; she put back to that port. All the passengers were kept at the pumps night and day.